Computerworld - When Kevin Humphries talks about green IT at FedEx, you won't hear much about reducing the company's carbon footprint. FedEx embraced the new math of green IT when it engineered every inch of its new, LEED-certified 46,000-sq.-ft. data center for maximum operational efficiency. "We found the most optimal mathematical model for capacities and efficiencies," says the senior vice president of IT at FedEx Corporate Services. The result is what he calls "a perfect blend" of green energy usage, fiscal savings and rational utilization of equipment and resources. Elements of the design included flywheel backup power generators, variable-speed fans that help keep the facility's Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) rating low, and air-side economizers that generate 5,000 hours per year of free cooling for the Colorado Springs building. FedEx also raised the operating temperature in the data center by 5 degrees to cut the cooling bill. Meanwhile, specific rack cooling technologies, alternative energy sources and other systems were not included because FedEx felt they were risky, prone to failure or required undue maintenance. "We had to find the perfect blend of simplicity and advanced technology," Humphries says. Because the hype and excitement over green IT has diminished over the past few years, and the specter of carbon taxes has faded, organizations have begun to put sustainable IT initiatives on the back burner, or even dismiss them entirely. But successful green IT projects usually go hand in hand with operational efficiency initiatives, where benefits drop down to the bottom line while meeting corporate sustainability goals. "Did we make any trade-offs with efficiency versus cost? There were very few," Humphries says. The good news is that there are still plenty of relatively easy ways to make your facilities more eco-friendly. "Your average data center remains relatively inefficient," says Simon Mingay, an analyst at Gartner. And that means green IT affords lots of opportunities for gaining favor with the CFO as well as the corporate sustainability advocate. There's even a road map to follow: The best practices for energy efficiency are now well established and readily available from resources such as The Green Grid (see box below), and standards for water usage, carbon usage, renewable energy and e-waste are evolving rapidly. Green IT Road Maps to Best Practices The following guides to green IT metrics are available at TheGreenGrid.org: • "Power Usage Effectiveness: A Comprehensive Examination of the Metric" • "Water Usage Effectiveness (WUE): A Green Grid Data Center Sustainability Metric" • "Carbon Usage Effectiveness (CUE): A Green Grid Data Center Sustainability Metric" • "Electronics Disposal Efficiency (EDE): An IT Recycling Metric for Enterprises and Data Centers"

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Computerworld - Israeli start-up Humavox has announced a new hardware platform that uses radio frequency (RF) to transmit power wirelessly to mobile devices. Humavox's Eterna platform is aimed at making it simpler to charge wearable devices such as hearing aids, smartwatches and augmented reality glasses. The wireless charging market - small as it is -- is dominated by companies that today offer products that use electromagnetic fields to create a link to transfer power without cords. As of yet, the marketplace has not settled on an industry standard, though groups have taken positions behind several specifications. Humavox's Eterna hardware platform will be sold as intellectual property to device manufacturers so they can integrate the company's wireless charging element using whatever method works best for them, according to Omri Lachman, founder and CEO of Israel Humavox. The Humavox technology consists of a "NEST" Station -- a design-free RF resonator that charges devices put inside it, with no placement or orientation requirements. The NEST (i.e., like a bird's nest) prototype created by Humavox is a white, plastic ball that can be opened to reveal a small charging bowl. Lachman said the device should be able to charge an enabled product in about the same time as with a charging cord. In tests, the technology's charging efficiency "rarely drops below 90%," he said, referring to the amount of power lost in the wireless transfer. Humavox's other enabling technology is ThunderLink, a wireless charging receiver that integrates with a device in a variety of technologies, from PC boards to aftermarket mobile device sleeves to full ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) integration, meaning there is virtually no engineering required by manufacturers, Lachman said. Humavox's NEST Station wireless charging prototype. "Our key guideline was to create an effortless and seamless experience for users and manufacturers. We wanted to make charging as simple as dropping a product in a box," Lachman said. "We wanted to take charging from being an oppressive action...for some users to an intuitive action." Lachman compared his company's RF charging technology to magnetic resonance and inductive charging techniques, saying the latter is more difficult to integrate into mobile products. "With Humavox, there is no longer a need for wires, flat surfaces or precise placement onto power-charging mats -- it's as simple as putting a device of any shape or size into a box," he said. "The simple way to illustrate how RF charging works is that it's very similar to how a Wi-Fi router works. "In our case, you have a small unit with an antenna...and it will receive that RF that's converted into DC energy," Lachman said. Humavox plans to demonstrate its technology at next month's CES Conference in Las Vegas. Lachman said his company is in talks with mobile product manufacturers to integrate the technology, but he would not disclose which ones. Humavox's technology transmits RFs over a broad band of frequency waves and converts it to voltage to wirelessly charge the battery, Lachman said. The technology uses coils similar to those used by magnetic resonance to transmit power, but additionally uses an antenna to establish the transmission connection. Humavox is not alone in the Wi-Fi wireless charging space. After six years of development, start-up Ossia has already demonstrated its Cota wireless charging technology, which it says will be available to consumers and enterprises by 2015. Another company, PowerbyProxi, also has a wireless charging technology that allows users to simply place objects into a box to be charged. Earlier this year, Samsung's venture funding arm announced it was investing $4 million in the company.

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Computerworld - Sometimes it seems as though technology is making our lives more complicated, not less. There's a vast amount of information out there, much of which we seem determined to save. We collect it from the Web, from our scanners and via our smartphone cameras, and it can range from important data such as tax returns, family pictures and contracts to the photo you took of the wine that your friend served you last Thursday. Where do you put it all, and how do you find it again? A number of applications promise to help you track that cacophony of information. Currently, the two kings of this particular castle are Evernote and Springpad. They are both Web-based tools designed to serve as bottomless storage repositories; they're built to enable people to deposit almost any type of digital information and then organize it, categorize it and/or retrieve it when needed. Alternative Applications There are, of course, a number of other applications designed to help users collect and organize digital information, but most of them are more focused (and, as a result, more limited) than Evernote or Springpad. Three popular programs are OS-dependent: Windows users can turn to Microsoft Office OneNote 2010 to collect text, photos, videos and clippings from Web sites, and Mac enthusiasts can do similar things with Yojimbo or Soho Notes. There are also a number of cloud-based applications that are either limited to specific types of data (for example, Simplenote is a text app that works on the Web or with iOS devices) or more suited to people who use specific apps or software suites (Zoho Notebook, for example, is a OneNote-like Web app that works best with other Zoho applications). And a new application called Memonic lets you save Web content; it's available in a Windows client version or as an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch app. It's a tall order. The idea that you can save almost all digital information and then retrieve it at a moment's notice is a great one -- especially to information magpies who want to hold onto a huge amount of data but don't have the time or the inclination to organize it. But how well do these two programs fulfill that promise? I worked with Evernote and Springpad for several weeks, using them both as professional tools and for personal information storage. I compared the two based on a variety of factors, from the features of their interfaces to their support for social networking. Interestingly, while both applications handle a wide variety of data and are designed for the same purpose -- to help users track everything -- each has a very different approach. Your choice will probably depend on what type of interface you're comfortable with and the type of data you tend to work with. Note: Most of my observations are based on experiences working on Windows-based laptops and an Android-based Droid smartphone. You might encounter some differences if you use Evernote or Springpad on OS X- and iOS-based devices, but the main functionality is the same. How they work The first major difference between Evernote and Springpad is in the access they provide to your stored data: a hybrid local/cloud approach versus an all-cloud service. Evernote Although Evernote syncs everything through the cloud and offers a fairly sophisticated Web-based platform, the application is actually centered on its local clients for Windows and OS X. It also is available in apps for several mobile platforms, including iPhones, iPads, Android devices, BlackBerry phones and the Palm Pre. Your information is synced across these platforms. These local clients ensure that users have access to their data whether or not they're online -- something that is useful for those who depend on Wi-Fi for an Internet connection away from home or the office. For example, if I want to take notes at a meeting where I'm not sure I can get online, I bring up Evernote on my netbook (I haven't joined the tablet forces yet) and type away, secure in the knowledge that as soon as I'm able to connect to the Internet again, Evernote will automatically sync the new note with the rest of the database. Evernote is available in a free ads-included version that allows users to add up to 60MB of additional data per month. (There's no cap on how much aggregate data you can store over time, just a limit on how much new information you can add each month.) A premium ad-free version ($5/month or $45/year) lets you add up to 1GB of new data per month; it also synchronizes any files you attach to your notes, while the free version syncs only images, audio and PDF files in addition to your notes. Premium users enjoy a variety of other advantages as well, such as improved support and access to note history. Springpad Unlike Evernote, Springpad is a completely cloud-based service, and it went through a nasty few days during the recent Amazon EC2 cloud service outage. Like other Web services that depended on Amazon's servers (such as Quora and Reddit), Springpad was completely down for about two days -- and its users didn't have local use of their data. Disconcerting, to say the least. To its credit, the company was very careful to keep in touch with its users during the downtime, telling them exactly what happened, explaining how to back up their data and describing what it will do to prevent a similar incident in the future. Springpad is completely free; it currently doesn't offer a premium service. Addendum As of May 10, 2011, Springpad added offline support to users of the Chrome browser. A new Springpad Chrome Web app will automatically save your data locally and allow you to access it offline with some limitations.

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Computerworld - I've spent the past two weeks flying my experimental two-seater across the country, landing at small airports, pitching my tent wherever I can, bouncing in the thermals, and mostly observing the world from a couple thousand feet up. From that vantage point, youcan learn what a community values. The same is true, in a figurative sense, with organizations. What can you glean from a literal bird's-eye view? Consider the impression I got of Canadian, Texas, a small town near the Oklahoma border. When I looked down on the town from the air, it seemed like a family-oriented place, neither rich nor poor, since most of the housing consisted of single-family homes with small yards. It was easy to see that the town was suffering terribly from this summer's drought. Every yard was brown and dry, as was the terrain for at least 50 miles in every direction, with one small but significant exception: At the southern end of town, a brilliant green football field was surrounded by a bright orange running track and had the name of the team, Canadian Wildcats, emblazoned in the end zones. White bleachers lined both sides of the field, which sat next to a large parking lot. The field looked very much like an oasis. True, you don't get a lot of detail when viewing it from 2,000 feet in the air; I couldn't tell whether the field had been watered, replaced with artificial turf or painted green. But it was clear nonetheless that the townsfolk of Canadian take a lot of pride in that patch of ground. It told me that for Canadians, football is more than a game, and that field is more than just a place for their kids to play. The Canadian Wildcats' field is a public forum where the community can come together, bond and express their pride. All communities, even project teams and companies, make decisions about what's important to them, and those choices are often indelibly marked, visible to the observant -- just as the things that are important to the residents of Canadian, Texas, were apparently visible to me from a couple thousand feet above. Whether you're joining a technical team or working across the divide with nongeeks, the things you learn about what's important in your new environment can determine what sort of first impression you make and whether you will be embraced or rejected by your new colleagues. Violate unspoken rules of conduct, and you may be in for a rough ride. For example, I was called in for a meeting with a potential consulting client. As I arrived, I noticed that the company had cubicles with low walls, cubicles with medium walls, cubicles with high walls, small offices with no windows, midsize offices with small windows, and large offices with big windows and meeting tables. Without exchanging a word with anyone at the company, I knew that this was a place that had a high regard for hierarchy. So I knew that I should focus my attention on the CIO rather than any of his lieutenants; they wouldn't be making any decisions and probably wouldn't voice any public opinions. I acted on that assumption in the meeting, and my suspicions were confirmed. In the end, the CIO hired me. I doubt that he would have if my behavior had not reflected recognition of the company's strict pecking order. So when you engage with new people, pay attention not only to the tasks that you are asked to do, but also to the values of the group. A quick glance from 2,000 feet can tell you all you need to know. Paul Glen, CEO of Leading Geeks, is devoted to clarifying the murky world of human emotion for people who gravitate toward concrete thinking. His newest book is 8 Steps to Restoring Client Trust: A Professional's Guide to Managing Client Conflict. You can contact him at info@leadinggeeks.com. More by Paul Glen Paul Glen: How can you wield influence if you don't know what it is? Paul Glen: For geeks, avoiding blame is a silent career killer Paul Glen: When you've had it with a stakeholder Paul Glen: Nobody wants you to be a technology vending machine Paul Glen: Geeks love problems, so give them some Paul Glen: The secret to keeping processes vital Paul Glen: How to deal with a toxic team Paul Glen: The hazards of literal listening Paul Glen: Even if you can't measure it, you still must manage it Paul Glen: Being right vs. not being wrong Opinions

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IDG News Service - EMC is updating its NetWorker backup and recovery software on Tuesday with an eye to greater efficiency, tighter integration with other EMC products, and cloud computing. NetWorker 8 is the most significant new version of the software since 2003, when NetWorker 7 was released. It updates the product in several major ways, both streamlining it for higher performance and enhancing its usefulness. In fact, the basic architecture of NetWorker has been changed for improved performance and scalability. In previous versions of NetWorker, the management of backup appliances ran entirely on the central NetWorker server. With Version 8, that work is distributed among NetWorker Storage Nodes, the servers that send data to backup appliances. Adding more backup systems no longer requires more central server capacity. "Rather than one server managing devices, you now have N number of servers managing devices," said Rob Emsley, senior director of product marketing. "That has allowed us to, with the same amount of infrastructure ... scale to three times the amount of devices," he said. While NetWorker Storage Nodes now can take over management tasks, another new feature called Client Direct lets NetWorker bypass those nodes in the backup process. Client Direct is an addition to NetWorker's client software that can send data directly from the client to a backup target, such as a disk array. This feature reduces the backup path from two hops to one, cutting in half the time it takes to complete the process, Emsley said. Reducing the workload on NetWorker Storage Nodes is the key benefit that Luke Youngblood sees in NetWorker 8. Youngblood is an enterprise infrastructure architect at a large national health-care technology company in the U.S. His company has standardized on Data Domain backup appliances from EMC, using data deduplication to cut the amount of data that has to be transported and stored. The company offers managed services for processing health-care diagnostics and insurance claims, and it has about 2,000 physical and virtual servers in five data centers around the U.S., with about 1 petabyte of data. With its current NetWorker software, Version 7.6, Youngblood's company has to run every backup through a NetWorker Storage Node, he said. That has meant fat 10-Gigabit Ethernet pipes to carry data from multiple servers to the node, plus high capacity within the node to handle the process. With NetWorker 7.6, "You had to be careful not to overload the storage node," Youngblood said. In some cases, that has required his company to stagger its backups so there aren't too many running at once. Once deduplication and backup happen directly between the client and the storage appliance, a Gigabit Ethernet connection will suffice and the company won't have to invest in more storage nodes just for processing, he said.

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IDG News Service - Open-source enterprise software company Red Hat has updated its virtualization platform, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (REV), to include support for desktop virtualization, the company announced on Monday. The beta version of REV 2.2 will include a number of new programs that will allows customers to run a virtualized desktop infrastructure (VDI). "It will allow you to deploy a RHEL [Red Hat Enterprise Linux] desktop, or Windows XP, or Windows 7, on a secure high-performance hypervisor platform," said Andrew Cathrow, who is a Red Hat senior product marketing manager. "By using a VDI, you are moving the [operating system] from the end user's device into the data center, where it is easier to manage and maintain." REV is a package of a number of different Red Hat applications integrated for offering virtualization capabilities to the enterprise. It comes with a virtualization management console, as well as a bare-metal hypervisor, the Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM). KVM is also included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). REV can run hosted versions of either Linux or Windows. This version of REV includes the SPICE (Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments), for remote rendering of desktops. Red Hat acquired this software in its 2008 purchase of Qumranet. The package also includes a connection broker, a Web portal users log into to fetch their desktops form their client machines. Formerly, the desktop capabilities were available as a separate stand-alone beta offering of REV, but with 2.2 the server and desktop editions are merged into a single package. "We believe it is important to have a common platform. Customers don't want to have one tool for desktops and one tool for servers," Cathrow said. In addition to the desktop virtualization, REV 2.2 introduces a number of other new features. Chief among them is the ability to import virtual machines from platforms, such as those offered by VMware, Citrix and Microsoft. To this end, REV uses the Open Virtualization Format (OVF), an open standard for virtual machine images. This is also the first release to include the V2V virtual machine conversion software, which can convert VMware or Xen virtual machines created within Red Hat Enterprise Linux into KVM virtual machines. The company also plans to add functionality that will allow the conversion of virtual machines that were built on Microsoft Windows platforms as well. "It is very simple to migrate [virtual machines] from other hypervisor platforms into REV," Cathrow said. In this release, REV also includes a data warehouse for monitoring the performance and usage of virtual machines, the data from which can be piped into most other SQL-based business intelligence tools.

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IDG News Service - Facebook on Friday moved ahead with proposed changes to its privacy policies to clarify that users' posts on the site can be used in advertisements, but that users have controls to limit their appearance. In August, Facebook proposed revisions to its Statement of Rights and Responsibilities, in which it said that it can use the names, profile pictures and other data of its members to deliver ads. The proposed changes drew sharp criticism from some users, privacy groups and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, which launched an examination into whether the amendments violated a 2011 law. The updated policies largely stand and will go into effect immediately, Facebook said on Friday. "Your feedback was clear -- we can do better -- and it led to a number of clarifying edits," said Erin Egan, Facebook's chief privacy officer. Nothing about the update, however, has changed Facebook's advertising policies or practices, she said in a blog post. "The goal of the update was to clarify language, not to change policies or practices," she said. But there was a change made in the policy's language addressing the presumption that minors on the site had received permission from their parents to have their data used in connection with ads. In Facebook's August proposal, one clause said that if a user was under the age of 18, "you represent that at least one of your parents or legal guardians has also agreed to the terms of this section (and the use of your name, profile picture, content and information) on your behalf." Based on feedback received, Facebook determined that the language was confusing and so it was removed, the company said on Friday. "This language was about getting a conversation started; we were not seeking and would not have gained any additional rights as a result of this addition," Egan said. Facebook has a number of ways that it uses people's data to deliver advertisements. One of its most important ad products is its "sponsored stories" program, which led to a class-action lawsuit and then a US$20 million settlement earlier this year. For some sponsored content, for instance, Facebook uses location check-ins or members' "likes" to have their profile name and picture paired with ads, if that "like" was given for a participating business. That advertisement would then be eligible to appear to the person's friends elsewhere on Facebook such as the news feed, timeline, or through the site's new search engine, called Graph Search. But members can still limit who sees these types of ads, Facebook said, based on who is allowed to see "likes." So if a person only allows family members to see that he "liked" a particular business, then only the family members would see the ad paired with the "like," the company said.

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IDG News Service - Some Twitter users were surprised Monday when they clicked a button to share content from third-party websites but instead downloaded a mysterious torrent file.    Twitter fixed a problem with its "Tweet" button Monday that caused some users to download a harmless torrent file. Twitter said the problem, which users said affected websites including TechCrunch.com, FT.com and Businessinsider.com, has been fixed, and the Tweet buttons are now functioning normally. As is the case when something strange happens, users suspected either Twitter or one of its technology partners had been compromised. Twitter uses several content delivery networks (CDNs) to serve content and improve the site's performance. Twitter did not indicate the cause of the issue but said in a statement "to our knowledge, the torrent file was not malicious." A torrent is a small information file that coordinates the download of content on the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file-sharing system. Torrent files are not malicious, but hackers have been known to disguise malware by making their program looks like legitimate files in the hope that people will launch them. Twitter's sharing buttons are widely used across websites and allow users to easily share a link to content on a website by posting a link to their Twitter feed. When a Tweet button is clicked, a JavaScript file is requested. The Tweet button isn't actually hosted on Twitter.com but instead on CDNs, according to the company. Send news tips and comments to jeremy_kirk@idg.com. Follow me on Twitter: @jeremy_kirk

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Computerworld - Amid rumors of layoffs and a possible sale of the company, BlackBerry today announced some good news: its growing BBM instant messaging service will be available for Android and iPhone devices in the next several days. BBM is one of the high points of the failing BlackBerry legacy business, with recent growth in BBM users mainly in Europe and Asia. Until now, BBM has only been available for BlackBerry devices. BBM has 60 million monthly active customers who send and receive more than 10 billion messages a day, BlackBerry said. Messages are quickly read in seconds, which BlackBerry said is an indication of how engaged BBM users are. BBM will be a free download in the Google Play store for Android on Saturday and in the Apple App Store for iPhone on Sunday, BlackBerry said. "With more than a billion Android, iOS and BlackBerry smartphones in the market, and no dominant mobile messaging platform, this is absolutely the right time to bring BBM to Android and iPhone customers," Andrew Bocking, executive vice president for BBM at BlackBerry, said in a statement. In addition to BBM text chat, users can share files such as photos and voice notes. BBM lets a user know that a message has been delivered and read and shows when a friend is responding. Up to 30 friends can join in group chats and share photos and schedules. A function called Broadcast Message allows users to send out a message to all their BBM contacts at the same time. BBM relies on a unique PIN to authorize a user, which BlackBerry maintains is more secure than giving out a phone number or email address to a new contact. The Android download will be available at 7 a.m. ET on Sept. 21 for Android 4 and later. For iPhones running iOS 6 and iOS 7, BBM will be available in the App Store at 12:01 a.m. local time on Sept. 22. Later in 2013, BlackBerry is expected to unveil BBM Channels to allow for conversations between users and communities. The conversations can be organized around common interests, brands, celebrities and more. BBM video and BBM voice calling are also planned for Android and iPhone in a future version, but BlackBerry didn't disclose when. BBM isn't yet available for Windows Phone smartphones, and BlackBerry didn't indicate when, or whether, that would occur. Windows Phone recently overtook BlackBerry as the third-largest smartphone brand shipping globally. Matt Hamblen covers mobile and wireless, smartphones and other handhelds, and wireless networking for Computerworld. Follow Matt on Twitter at  @matthamblen or subscribe to Matt's RSS feed. His email address is mhamblen@computerworld.com. See more by Matt Hamblen on Computerworld.com.

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Computerworld - Oracle's growth-by-acquisition strategy has slowed markedly this year, and analysts say the firm is concentrating instead on integrating Sun Microsystems products and personnel into the company and finishing work on the long-awaited Fusion Applications. So far this year, the company's acquisitions have been limited to picking up some intellectual property assets in February from privately held Ndevr, a maker of environmental reporting and analytics software, and acquiring U.K.-based Datanomic, a small, venture-funded data-quality vendor, in April. Sale prices were not disclosed in either deal, suggesting that neither is material to Oracle's bottom line. In contrast, the company completed some 70 deals, several of which were major, billion-dollar-plus acquisitions, between 2005 and 2010. Oracle's last big acquisition -- the $7.4 billion purchase of Sun -- closed in early 2010. Since then, Oracle has been working to shore up Sun's hardware business and started pushing a vision of integrated systems that span from disks to applications. In the foreseeable future, analysts expect that Oracle will concentrate on acquiring some key technologies that could improve its standing in fast-growing areas like "big data" management, mobile technologies and social software. Forrester Research analyst James Kobielus said Oracle may be joining "everyone and his brother" in going after technologies related to the open-source Hadoop framework for large-scale data processing. Possible acquisition targets include Datameer, Karmasphere and Cloudera, which offer a variety of Hadoop tools and services, he said. Ray Wang, an analyst at Constellation Research, added that the company is also likely to try to fill holes with mobile technology and social software assets. "There may be a shift in their portfolio [strategy] to pick up those things," he said. Wang suggested that Oracle could take a look at emerging platform-as-a-service vendors such as Joyent or Engine Yard to boost its mobile business. For social applications, Oracle has a wide variety of acquisition choices, he added, among them Jive Software, which has been rumored to be candidate for acquisition. Wang said it's likely that Oracle is interested in adding healthcare applications to its software portfolio, not just for electronic medical records, but also in areas such as nurse recruiting and adverse-event reporting for pharmaceuticals. The healthcare analytics tools would probably be built on top of its core business intelligence stack, he said. Oracle may also be looking to further increase its growing emphasis on hardware. Last year, for example, the company acquired a 10.2% stake in Mellanox, a maker of InfiniBand interconnects. Also, while few analysts expect that Oracle will invest heavily in professional services to compete with the likes of Hewlett-Packard and IBM, it could buy small, specialist systems-integration firms, particularly those that focus on BI projects. An Oracle spokeswoman declined to comment on the company's plans. But once the company is done integrating Sun and developing the modular Fusion Applications, its rapid-growth-by-acquisition strategy could return. Observers note that executives cited former HP CEO Mark Hurd's experience "operating a $100 billion business" as one reason Oracle hired him as a co-president last year. Kanaracus is a reporter for the IDG News Service. James Niccolai of the IDG News Service contributed to this story.

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IDG News Service - The general counsel of a U.S. spying agency told a Senate committee Wednesday that if Internet companies provide information about the number of surveillance orders they receive for user data, it would alert the country's adversaries on which services to avoid. The government defended its data collection and disclosure policies even as a representative from Google warned the senators that U.S. surveillance practices could lead to the break up of the Internet. "Providing that information in that level of detail could provide our adversaries a detailed road map of which providers and which platforms to avoid in order to escape surveillance," said Robert Litt, general counsel in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and Brad Wiegmann, deputy assistant attorney general in the Department of Justice, in a statement in connection with the Senate hearing on "The Surveillance Transparency Act of 2013." The proposed legislation aims to bring greater transparency in data collection by the National Security Agency. Internet companies including Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Yahoo and LinkedIn have asked the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to allow them to publish aggregate data about any orders or directives they have received under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and related statutes. The companies are trying to counter adverse publicity from disclosures by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden that suggest that some Internet companies provide real-time access to user content on their servers to the NSA, which the companies have denied. The companies are allowed to reveal the number of surveillance requests only if they lump them together with other requests from U.S. law enforcement agencies. Litt's statement, however, indicated that the government is not willing to give much ground on the secrecy surrounding its data collection, which according to documents released by Snowden and the government includes bulk collection of phone metadata and user content on the Internet. While it is "possible and appropriate" to provide information on targets of surveillance, "counting the number of persons or of U.S. persons whose communications are actually collected, even if they're not the targets, is operationally very difficult, at least without an extraordinary investment of resources and maybe not even then," according to the government statement. It's not possible, for example, to determine whether a person who receives an email is a U.S. person, as the email address does not reveal anything about the citizenship or nationality of the person, it said. In cases where it is possible to get information that would help to determine if the person is from the U.S., the research required would "perversely require a greater invasion of that person's privacy than would otherwise occur."

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Computerworld - Apple on Monday updated OS X Mavericks for the first time since it released the free upgrade eight weeks ago, patching a handful of security vulnerabilities in Safari and addressing issues with Gmail and Contacts. OS X 10.9.1, which weighed in at about 243MB, was couched as a combination of security, stability and compatibility fixes, and followed a narrow Nov. 7 tweak that targeted only Mail, Mavericks' email client. It appeared significantly later than previous first updates: Mountain Lion's 10.8.1 and Lion's 10.7.1 shipped approximately four weeks after the original. Apple called out several non-security changes inside 10.9.1, including additional fixes to Mail and how it handles Google's popular Gmail email service; improved support for the VoiceOver tool on Facebook; and resolutions of multiple problems with Contacts, OS X's address book. On the security side, 10.9.1 patched nine vulnerabilities, all in Safari, with eight rated critical by Apple, which declines to assign threat scores but instead tags such bugs with the phrase "may lead to ... arbitrary code execution." Three of the vulnerabilities were originally reported by Google's Chrome security team, which continues to contribute to the WebKit open-source browser engine project, which powers Safari, even though Google has moved to its own WebKit fork, dubbed Blink, as the foundation of Chrome. In a separate security-only update, Apple patched the same nine vulnerabilities in 2012's Safari 6, pushing the version number to 6.1.1, which became the most current edition for OS X 10.7, aka Lion, and OS X 10.8, or Mountain Lion. The omission of an update to Safari 5, which debuted in 2010, is a clear signal that Apple has retired OS X 10.6, better known as Snow Leopard, from support. Safari 5.1 is the newest version that runs on that 2009 operating system, and was last updated in September 2013. Snow Leopard has faced the chopping block for more than a year, but as its users have resisted upgrading -- some because it is the last version of OS X able to run old applications designed for the PowerPC processor -- Apple has continued to ship security updates for the aged OS. Last month, 20% of all Macs ran Snow Leopard, according to data from Web analytics vendor Net Applications. OS X 10.9.1 and Safari 6.1.1 can be retrieved by selecting "Software Update..." from the Apple menu, or by opening the Mac App Store application and clicking the Update icon at the top right. Mavericks 10.9.1 can also be downloaded manually from Apple's support site. Mavericks 10.9.1 patched a handful of Safari vulnerabilities, but was billed as a stability and compatibility update for Apple's free OS X. Gregg Keizer covers Microsoft, security issues, Apple, Web browsers and general technology breaking news for Computerworld. Follow Gregg on Twitter at @gkeizer, or subscribe to Gregg's RSS feed . His email address is gkeizer@computerworld.com. > OS X Mavericks New tech device? Make the most of it Apple ships first OS X Mavericks update, tackles more email issues Free Mavericks sets OS X adoption record Apple's giveaway of Mavericks is 'irrelevant' to Linux, says Torvalds Apple's Mavericks off to strongest-ever OS X start Mavericks rushes onto Macs as uptake easily beats predecessor to 10% mark After first day, OS X Mavericks on 1 in 18 Macs 9 out of 10 Macs are eligible for free Mavericks upgrade QuickPoll: Why did Apple decide to give away OS X Mavericks for free? Apple gives away OS X Mavericks More in Apple Update

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PC World - The war between Google and Microsoft is heating up. Each tech giant offers a productivity suite serving the essentials for serious work online: word processing, spreadsheets, email, and calendars. Should you ally with Google Apps for Business, or root for Microsoft's Office 365 for Small Business? My experience with both brands' productivity tools reflects the workflows many small businesses face.A In 2007, with staff scattered across several countries, my editorial company started usingA Google Apps for Business. It offered email, plus shared text documents and spreadsheets all under our company domain name and logo. Meanwhile, on the desktop, we used Microsoft Word and Excel, particularly for complex documents that we shared with clients. If we were starting over today, we would seriously consider Microsoft's Office 365 for Small Business. For years Microsoft wasn't putting significant functionality online, butA next week's release of Office 365 Small Business Premium is a big step forward. Google and Microsoft each allow personal and business use of their online platform, as well as simultaneous logins to multiple accounts in different browser tabs.A Beyond that, however, their platforms differ greatly in usability, functionality, and mobile support. Read on to discover the standout features and surprising weak points of each. Word processing and collaboration \Google's word processor offers more features than Microsoft's Word Web App, and they work extremely well.A Google's word processor can't create an index, but it has all the standard formatting, as well as hundreds of fonts. If I have a document pulled up in my browser while someone else is editing it on, say, their smartphone, I see the changes as they are typing them, letter by letter. Google's word processor is a what-you-see-is-what-you-get app--unlike Microsoft's Word Web app. The way a document looks onscreen is the way it will look when downloaded to your PC as a Word or PDF file, when printed, or when published as a Web page. Critically important: Google saves your documents A automatically. Back in the old days--2008, say--you might lose all your work at any moment. Today, changes are saved instantaneously, and if you lose Internet connectivity, you're alerted immediately. Google Drive can sync documents on multiple machines and in the cloud. If a Google document is edited offline, there's a potential for conflict with other editors, and again if users apply Word formatting that isn't yet supported by Google. If there are no conflicts, the document syncs automatically. Otherwise, either a brand-new document is created with the changes, or you can choose which changes to use. Microsoft Office 365 shares Google's synchronization problem when documents are edited locally. The Word Web App that comes with Office 365A has a bit less functionality--in addition to the real estate--hogging "ribbon" interface.A But, most important, it lacks auto-save and what-you-see-is-what-you-get. Also, unlike Google, the Word Web App attempts to maintain a level of compatibility with the standard desktop version of Word, but it can't yet display all the formats. Say, for example, that you have white letters on a dark background.A It looks fine when first uploaded and viewed in the Reading View. But click on Editing View,A and the rA(c)sumA(c) sections are immediately misaligned, formatting commands butt into the text, and background colors all disappear. To make sure the edits look right, you'll need to switch back to the Reading View. Editing the same sample rA(c)sumA(c) in Google is an easier matter, as this image shows: With Microsoft's Word Web App, trying to edit the same document from multiple locations is difficult since changes are not saved in real time. There's a complex process of locking, unlocking, and reconciling files if multiple people edited them at once.A If your employees need to do any serious editing, they'll need to use the desktop version of Word 2013, available within pricier Office 365 subscriptions. (Collaborative editing in Word 2013 works only with the step-up Office 365 plans that add SharePoint.) Microsoft's mobile functionality is in place only if you're using the well-built Office apps for Windows Phone 8, or if you've paid for Office desktop software for a Windows 8 tablet. There are no iOS or Android apps for Office 365, though third-party apps let you edit Office documents. Google, on the other hand, offers free apps for iOS and Android, but not for Windows mobile devices. Winner: Google Apps wins. Microsoft's Word Web App isn't ready for prime time. Next page: Spreadsheets, email, calendars, and costs... Online spreadsheets Google's spreadsheet app supports basic Excel functionality--multiple sheets in a workspace, cross-sheet references, and standard formulas. It also has formatting options, charts, drawings, images, gadgets and scripts. Yet, when saving a Google spreadsheet in Excel format, the charts may look a little different, and some functionality might be lost. The same is true when converting an Excel document to edit in Google Apps. The Excel Web App does have autosave, background colors on cells work fine, and multiple people can edit online at once. It supports many more features than Google's spreadsheets do. Cell formats, charts, formulas, and many other advanced functions work perfectly. Not everything is supported, such as objects or tables that pull in data from outside sources.A However, if you upload files saved in older Excel formats, such as .xls, you will need to re-save them first in the latest .xlsx format to edit them. Winner: Microsoft's Excel Web App is superior to Google Spreadsheets. Email and calendars Microsoft's Outlook, Calendar, Contacts, and Tasks are similar to Google's counterparts. Outlook allows emails to be grouped into folders and subfolders, while Google has labels and sublabels. A Google email can have multiple labels, but an Outlook email can be copied to multiple folders, and a "Category" option is similar to Gmail's labels. So it's pretty much a wash. Gmail integrates well with many of Google's other tools. Get a foreign-language email? Gmail offers to translate it. Text chat with your contacts without leaving Gmail, add them to your Google+ circles, start a voice or video call, or set up a hangout video conference with several people. Both Outlook and Gmail have nice text editors. The Outlook Web App opens a new pop-up window when a user is reading or creating email--an annoying habit since I have pop-ups blocked. If you've used the free Outlook that comes with Microsoft's personal SkyDrive service, you'll find quite a few differences. The SkyDrive version has some nice tools not in the Office 365 version of Outlook. For example, the folder navigation sidebar on the left includes "Quick views" to quickly scan through emails with attached documents, photos, or shipping updates. Microsoft's online Outlook and Calendar can be used as is. The one significant exception for businesses is the lack of an online mail merge function--you'll have to switch back to the desktop Office suite for that.A (Google Apps supports mail merge through either built-in scripting or withA third-party apps.) Both Gmail and Outlook allow you to manage multiple email addresses from the same account, but Gmail lets you set up different signatures for each address. Both platforms lets you view appointments from multiple calendars. For example, you might have a personal calendar for your own appointments, a group one that everyone on your team has access to, and a home calendar associated with your personal email account. Events from all three calendars will show up on the same screen, color-coded so you can tell them apart. In addition, both calendars can send you reminders by email, pop-up alerts, or via text message to your cell phone. I've used Outlook both on the desktop and on the Web, and I find Microsoft's online interface--for both the Office 365 Outlook and the new consumer-oriented Outlook.com--to be simpler and clearer than the desktop version. But I prefer Gmail to both, not because of any particular features, but simply because I'm more used to the interface after all these years. If your employees have been using Outlook all along, they would probably be happier with the Microsoft's online email client. Winner: Tie What they cost Google Apps for Business starts at $5 per user per month, or $50 per user per year. Each user gets 25GB of storage for email, plus 5 GB of storage on Google Drive. Upgrading to Google Apps for Business with Vault costs $10 per user per month, adding more security and e-discovery features. There are no limits on how many users each company can have on the platform, and additional storage space is available at $4 per month for 20 GB--though storage prices have been falling, and are likely to continue to do so. Office 365 for Small Business costs $6 per user per month for up to 50 users. For more users, you'll need to upgrade to the midsize business and enterprise plan, which starts at $8 a month. The latter is also available at $20/user per month, which adds a subscription to Office Professional Plus 2010 for up to five devices per user, as well as email archiving and unlimited email storage. Both platforms offer free trial periods. Winner: Google Apps for Business costs less. Add-ons and apps Google Apps has its own apps store (not to be confused with the Android Apps Store) in the Google Apps Marketplace. These applications, many also available for mobile devices, integrate with the Google platform. For example, they might allow single sign-on, or add functionality to your calendars, emails, contacts, or documents. By contrast, Microsoft has been slow to the Web, although it still dominates the offline world. Microsoft's Office Store sells apps that integrate with its desktop Office software, not the Web Apps. However, the Office file formats are the default standards for business documents shared with other businesses. An entire industry of developers and service providers helps companies expand on their Microsoft applications, and a great deal of legacy code is designed to work on the Microsoft platform.A Microsoft's offline ecosystem isn't likely to disappear any time soon. If your company has time and money invested in this ecosystem, it makes sense to consider Office 365 for online collaboration, and to be patient while Microsoft improves the feature set. Winner: Google is ahead with its Web ecosystem. Which suite should you choose? For startups and small companies without a great a deal of existing investment in Microsoft Office documents and applications, Google offers a robust and quickly evolving online ecosystem, with broad mobile support. Google Apps is part of a wide Google ecosystem and was born on the Web. Every document--text, spreadsheet, graphic, or presentation--can be instantly published to the Web for public access, or access by a limited group of users. Data can be pulled in from Google's various other applications, including Google Finance, or from easy-to-create online forms. If you're on the fence, ask yourself how important it is for you to edit complex Excel spreadsheets online; if you really need online access to Excel charts, complicated formulas, and fancy graphics, go with Office 365 for Small Business. Otherwise, Google Apps for Business offers the more compelling option.

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Computerworld - Google's corporate network was hacked because its workers were running rival Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, a point that didn't escape the notice of security researchers and Web users. "More interesting than the IE zero-day, is why wasn't Google running Chrome?" asked Andrew Storms, director of security operations at nCircle Network Security, shortly after Microsoft issued a security advisory that told users of a critical, unpatched bug in Internet Explorer (IE). Thursday, Microsoft acknowledged that the IE exploit had been used in the attacks against Google and other major corporations. "We have determined that Internet Explorer was one of the vectors used in targeted and sophisticated attacks against Google and possibly other corporate networks," said Mike Reavey, director of Microsoft's Security Response Center (MSRC). In fact, the malware that Microsoft and others researchers have examined was designed to exploit IE6, the eight-year-old browser that's most often used with Windows XP. Others, in addition to Storms, questioned why Google wasn't "eating its own dog food," the phrase used to describe software development companies running their own products, often in early editions long before they're made public. "I have to wonder, why the hell is Google using IE, and why IE6?" asked a Computerworld reader in a comment appended to a story on the IE bug. "In fact, why Windows-based servers? Eat your own dog food, Google." "Actually, it's the norm within companies, especially technology companies, for employees to run multiple browsers," said John Pescatore, Gartner's primary analyst on security subjects, noting that Google's workers may have, say, Chrome and IE on their machines. "But it's almost impossible for IE not to start up at some point during the day." Sheri McLeish, a Forrester analyst who covers browsers, wasn't surprised by the fact that Google workers run IE, even the aged IE6. "I don't have first-hand knowledge of why Google is using IE6, but what's under the hood at enterprises isn't always best practices," McLeish said. "There are likely business reasons why Google runs IE, because if they were easily able to upgrade [to IE8], they would." Microsoft said, and independent researchers confirmed, that the exploits which struck Google would be largely deflected by IE7 and IE8, particularly the latter because it enables DEP (data execution prevention) by default. "What these attacks point to is the fact that a lot of companies are running IE6," McLeish said. "Microsoft wants to kill IE6, a lot of companies want to kill it. But they can't." As McLeish said, Microsoft has urged customers to upgrade from IE6 to newer editions of its browser. It kicked off a campaign last August when Microsoft's general manager for IE said, "Friends don't let friend use IE6." The efforts haven't been entirely successful. Last year, as users began switching to IE8, they were more likely to desert IE7 than the even older IE6. According to Web metrics company Net Applications, IE6 lost 38% of its usage share during 2009, but IE7 lost even more: It dropped by 56%. Because of IE's dominance in enterprises -- one recent estimate is that IE runs on 80% of corporate computers -- it remains a prime target, and exploits that leverage its vulnerabilities make ideal vectors for attacks against businesses, Pescatore said. The attacks that exploited IE's unpatched flaw first came to light Tuesday, when Google announced that Chinese attackers had made off with intellectual property from its corporate network, and also tried to access the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists. Google said the attacks, along with increasing censorship of the Web by China's government, had prompted a reevaluation of its business in the country. Researchers at McAfee said their investigation showed that the attacks began in mid-December 2009 and stopped Jan. 4, 2010, when the hackers' command-and-control servers were taken offline. Google did not reply to a request for an explanation of why at least some of the company's workers use Microsoft's IE. Gregg Keizer covers Microsoft, security issues, Apple, Web browsers and general technology breaking news for Computerworld. Follow Gregg on Twitter at @gkeizer, send e-mail to gkeizer@ix.netcom.com or subscribe to Gregg's RSS feed . Web giants attacked White House orders security review in wake of WikiLeaks disclosure Leaked U.S. document links China to Google attack Update: Researchers track cyber-espionage ring to China Google, China now playing cat and mouse? McAfee: 'Amateur' malware not used in Google attacks Military warns of 'increasingly active' cyber-threat from China China: Google 'totally wrong' to stop censoring Update: Google stops censoring in China Google's China ad partners wait in 'incomparable pain' Google may soon leave China, reports say Full coverage: Web attacks

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IDG News Service - Cisco Systems and Google will give digital-video-recorder pioneer TiVo lump-sum payments totaling $490 million as part of a deal that will end the companies' litigation over patents for set-top technology. TiVo had been at odds with the two companies, as well as with Time Warner Cable and broadband device maker Arris Group, over the licensing of TiVo's patents, including patents on its DVR technology. Under the settlement, which the companies agreed to on Thursday, all patent infringement claims will be dismissed. Cisco will make a lump-sum payment of $294 million to TiVo and pay licensing fees in future years, Cisco said in a filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday. It will receive a perpetual license to the TiVo patents, and the two companies will enter into a limited cross-licensing agreement for video-related patents. Cisco and TiVo also agreed not to sue each other over patents for five years. Google's involvement in the case stems from its acquisition of Motorola Mobility, a deal that closed last May. In December, it sold Motorola's set-top box business to Arris for $2.35 billion. Google was not able to confirm how much it would pay TiVo. Cisco entered the set-top box business through its acquisition of Scientific Atlanta in 2006. Used as gateways to customers' homes for service providers, these have become a key part of Cisco's remaining consumer-focused business. Cisco estimated the lump-sum payment would reduce its earnings per share by approximately $0.03 in the company's fiscal fourth quarter, which ends in July. It doesn't expect the future licensing payments to materially affect its results. TiVo said Friday that it has won approximately $1.6 billion so far in awards and settlements over its intellectual property. After TiVo accused Cisco of infringing its patents, Cisco sued the company last year seeking to invalidate the patents. Cisco alleged that TiVo had resisted granting a broad license to its technology, according to news reports at the time. Stephen Lawson covers mobile, storage and networking technologies for The IDG News Service. Follow Stephen on Twitter at @sdlawsonmedia. Stephen's e-mail address is stephen_lawson@idg.com

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